Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Strength alone knows conflict weakness is born vanquished.

Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity and indeed of every age in the world have passed through this fiery persecution.